Originally Posted by
jujubean71
I never said thoughts solve problems.
Correct, but bocastephen had that in his post...problem solved.@:-)
Originally Posted by jujubean71
Effective action steps like talking to the parent and then to FA if necessary would hopefully solve the problem.
But I'd still want to grab the kid's leg. I guess bsdstone would want to whack the kid with a magazine. To each his own.
LOL...have you read
any of this thread? Yeah, I'm really advocating for whacking the kid.
Originally Posted by
luckyprincess
You're right - no kids! Never felt any desire yet and I like being skinny! (My family has a tendency to blow up during pregnancy
) But I do notice the hypocrisy of people that would never have accepted such behavior from a person/child until they become a parent. Then it seems that objective reasoning is thrown out the window. It's like the blue wall of slience or something - suddenly you have a child to discipline and you don't want to or don't think your child should have to follow rules of well behaved society. Weird.
I agree...a lot of folks are more interested in being their kids friends these days than being their parents. The world doesn't revolve around you just b/c you have kids.
Oh, and I blew up during our two pregnancies...but I didn't carry either one of our boys!
Originally Posted by luckyprincess
And yes, grabbing a kid and slamming them against anything is assault. But turning around with a wagging finger and telling them to knock it off if the parent is incapable is fine. I would actually lean my chair back into them if I thought it would squish their legs up a bit and make them uncomfy. If I was feeling really ambitious, I might even just switch to the seat in front of the parent and just put it back and up incessantly for a while to let them see how awesome it is to be annoyed like that.
I would do probably the same things as described above. What really makes me nuts is when parents don't even try...as a parent, I've been there...our oldest was flying with a cold at 13 months and after being wonderful for ~5 hours of the flight to San Juan, the descent killed him...he was crying so hard he actually threw up...we tried everything we could to calm him down, but nothing would stop him...we apologized profusely to the people around us...and to a person they were all very nice about it...that's all I think anyone asks for from a parent is some effort...just do SOMETHING!